THE HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE Ixili 
I do not intend to attempt to review the garden literature 
of this period, but I may mention that the enumeration of 
Chinese plants in the 23rd and 26th volumes of the Journal 
of the Linnean Society has been brought to a conclusion 
in the 86th volume. Another work of paramount interest 
is Sargent’s Silva of North America, containing excellent 
figures of all the species of trees occurring north of Mexico; 
and A History of Gardening in England, by the Hon. 
Alicia Amherst (now the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil), with a 
good bibliography of the subject, should be in the possession 
of all gardeners. 
In conclusion, I must ask for the indulgence of the 
reader, as the greater part of this History was written for 
a different purpose. Had it been written to appear in the 
Magazine it would have been compiled on a wholly different 
plan. 
W. Borrinc HeEmstey. 
